#BroaderBookshelf 2021 - Young Adult Romance Novels
- Sara M.
- Monday, February 22, 2021
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Fulfill the "Read a Romance Novel" prompt for this year's Broader Bookshelf challenge with one of these young adult romances! They're great books for teens and they also have a lot of crossover appeal for adults. All of the subgenres in adult romance appear in YA romance as well, so you're sure to find something you love here!
A romance novel isn't just a book that happens to have a love story in it - romance is an enormously popular genre with its own conventions, subgenres, and devoted readers that brings in a billion dollars a year and makes up almost a quarter of all books published in America. A true romance novel has to have two things: a central love story which is the focus of the novel and a satisfying, optimistic ending. It doesn't have to be "happily ever after", but a true romance novel is at least "happy for now". Romances can also be sad, funny, thoughtful, and suspenseful, and are written by, about, and for a wide variety of people - even if you don't think you like romance, if you like books about people experiencing human emotion there's one for you!
Learn more about the Broader Bookshelf challenge and see more lists here.

Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

The Only Thing Worse Than Me is You

An Assassin's Guide to Love and Treason

Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit

American Panda


Something in Between

This Lullaby

Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel

My Life Next Door

Just One Day

The Way You Make Me Feel

To All the Boys I've Loved Before


Letters to the Lost

Breathe, Annie, Breathe.

Everything Leads to You

Autoboyography

Boy Meets Boy

Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

The Weight of Feathers

When Dimple Met Rishi

Foolish Hearts

Anna and the French Kiss

Geekerella

If I Was Your Girl

Summer of Sloane

My So-called Bollywood Life

The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

The Summer of Jordi Perez (and the Best Burger in Los Angeles)

The Last Summer of the Garrett Girls

Stay Sweet

Love & Gelato

P.S. I Like You

Queens of Geek
